On Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2021 23:04:47 CET Geoffrey McRae wrote: > This goes against how all standard jack clients work, a new jack client > should not auto-connect at all unless explicitly configured to as if > there is an existing audio diagram configured (which is 99% of the time) > it will cause unexpected/undesired behavior. > > Jack is not supposed to be an 'automatic' system, it's the > responsibility of the patch bay software to route connections. > > The auto-connect feature exists to allow the jack audiodev to re-connect > a broken connection when the jack device restarts/reconnects.
Well, that was also my idea first, and I would agree with you in case of a regular music app of course, but then I thought QEMU is probably not an average JACK client, and it simply lowers the entry level for new users who probably just want to output to system out anyway. I mean, are you piping QEMU into Ardour or something Geoffrey? This could still be overridden by passing a bogus pattern with argument "connect-ports" for people who prefer the patchbay approach in the end. So I would vote for the "make it easy for newbies" approach in this case, but I leave that up to you and Gerd to decide. :) Best regards, Christian Schoenebeck
